Resolution for 2007: no more books!

One of my resolutions for 2007 is to beat my book buying habit. Too often I find myself buying a new book, reading the first few chapters, and abandoning it in favour of another new purchase. I have a deck of playing cards which I used a bookmarks and almost all of them are in books, some of which I began reading more than two years ago. I therefore resolve not to buy another book (excepting required textbooks) until I’ve finished those I already own. To start with, I’ve selected twelve shorter unread books:

Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Harry Brighouse, Justice

Alastair Hannay, On The Public

Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Jonathan Mills (ed.), Barons to Bloggers: Confronting Media Power

Alain de Botton, The Consolations of Philosophy

Chris George, The Book of Digital Photography

Karen Cheng, Designing Type

Gordon Rennie, David Bishop, Simon Jowett, Peter Evans & James Swallow, I Am the Law

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles

This post was published on January 4, 2007 and last modified
on June 4, 2020. It is tagged with: books, life.